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CMU team develops a robot and drone system for mine rescues

The team is preparing for DARPA’s subterranean challenge in a Pennsylvania coal mine. Read more here: TechCrunch is a leading technology media property, dedicated to obsessively profiling startups, reviewing new Internet products, and breaking tech news.

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  1. Janusz Sendyk

    March 29, 2019 at 5:43 pm

    Why drone has flipped arms? What is the purpose of it? I’m curious coz we’ve made similar robots in our company.

    • Brian Throm

      March 29, 2019 at 10:40 pm

      Janusz Sendyk
      I’d guess they are canted to allow the drone to rotate or spin while hovering and still maintaining the simplicity of a fixed rotor design

    • Janusz Sendyk

      March 29, 2019 at 11:13 pm

      +Brian Throm I asked about it because I think it’s unnecessary and I wanted to know why it was done that specific way 😉 A simpler design also meets these requirements regardless of the assumed angles and mathematical equations.

  2. Solidify

    March 30, 2019 at 8:13 am

    Make this one for minecraft

  3. Sumit Saini

    April 10, 2019 at 12:46 pm

    GREAT WORK ?

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